James (Joseph) Hanley (3 September 1897 – 11 November 1985) was a British novelist, short story writer, and playwright from Kirkdale, Liverpool, Lancashire, of Irish descent. Hanley came from a seafaring family and spent two years at sea himself, during World War I. He published his first novel Drift in 1930.

Boy, James Hanley 's second novel, first published in 1931 by Boriswood, is a grim story of the brief life and early death of a thirteen-year-old stowaway from Liverpool. After several editions had been published in 1931 and 1932, a cheap edition, published in 1934, was prosecuted for obscene libel and the publisher heavily fined.

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Acclaimed by luminaries such as William Faulkner and suppressed for more than 50 years by a prosecution for obscenity, James Hanley’s 1930s classic charts the short and brutish life of a boy forced out of school and into the unforgiving world of work.

Acclaimed by luminaries such as William Faulkner and suppressed for more than 50 years by a prosecution for obscenity, James Hanley's 1930s classic charts the short and brutish life of a boy forced out of school and into the unforgiving world of work.

James Hanley (1897 - 1985) is one of the great neglected writers of the twentieth century. Irish by background, although brought up in Liverpool, he lived for many years in North Wales and came to consider himself Welsh. all experiences that were utilised in his fiction when he eventually became a writer in the early 1930's.

James Hanley was a novelist and playwright. His output was prodigious: in addition to the five novels in the Furys sequence being reissued by Faber Finds, he wrote about twenty-five novels, sixteen volumes of short stories, six plays and seven books of miscellaneous writings.

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